You’ve probably heard it your whole life,
“Jesus is coming any day now.”
“The signs are all lining up.”
“Russia, Israel, earthquakes, blood moons, red heifers, Revelation is happening before our eyes!”
But here’s the problem.
Most people read Revelation like it’s a newspaper.
They treat it like a cosmic fortune cookie, not a Christ-exalting book of prophecy.
And when they say, “Doesn’t Revelation say…?”
The answer is often,
not the way you think.
Revelation isn’t about guessing timelines.
It’s not a rapture countdown.
It’s not a Left Behind fanfic.
It’s the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Not the revelation of the Antichrist.
Not the revelation of America’s doom.
Not the revelation of a rebuilt temple.
“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His servants the things that must soon take place…”
— Revelation 1:1
It’s a vision of victory.
Not a script for panic.
Revelation is full of symbols, not secrets.
You don’t unlock it with a decoder ring.
You understand it by knowing your Bible.
Old Testament prophecy, temple imagery, and the covenant story, it’s all there.
Beasts? Governments and empires.
Babylon? The system against Jesus Christ.
666? Man exalting himself above God.
Mark on the hand and forehead? What you do and what you believe.
A woman clothed in the sun? God’s faithful covenant people.
The dragon? Satan. Always has been. Always will be.
It’s not a horror movie. It’s a war declaration.
Jesus is reigning.
Satan is raging.
The Church is enduring.
And Christ is coming!
What about the tribulation?
It’s real.
But it’s not a 7-year action movie.
The Church has always gone through tribulation.
From Rome to Rwanda to right now.
“These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
— Revelation 7:14
You’re not promised escape.
You’re promised victory through suffering like Jesus.
What about the rapture?
The word isn’t even in the Bible.
The whole idea of a secret vanishing, mid-air evacuation before things get bad?
Invented in the 1800s.
And nowhere taught in Scripture.
“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven… and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive… will be caught up together with them… and so we will always be with the Lord.”
— 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
That’s the second coming, one single event.
Not two phases.
Not a secret return.
Not a heavenly Uber to avoid tribulation.
When Jesus comes back, every eye will see Him.
It’s loud. It’s final. It’s the end.
What about the Antichrist?
The Bible never says “the Antichrist” will rule a one-world government or sit in a third temple.
“Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming,
so now many antichrists have come.
Therefore we know that it is the last hour.”
— 1 John 2:18
John said they were already here.
Anyone who denies Christ and opposes His gospel is anti-Christ.
So what is Revelation about?
It’s about Jesus reigning even when it looks like evil is winning.
It’s about holding fast to the truth in the middle of suffering.
It’s about the Church conquering through faith, not force.
It’s about the Lamb who was slain being worshiped by every tribe, tongue, and nation.
“They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,
for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
— Revelation 12:11
It’s not a countdown to chaos.
It’s a coronation of the King.
So stop asking what Revelation says about America.
Start asking what it says about Jesus.
Because the point of Revelation isn’t to scare you.
It’s to anchor you.
To give hope.
To fuel endurance.
To show you that the Lamb wins.
And if you’re in Him, you do too.
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